THIS WEEK’S LABOR CALENDAR PREVIEW: your complete guide to labor happenings in the DMV this week; click here for details. Got something to add or update? Email us at [email protected].
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DC Labor to Labor Phonebanks: Mon, October 3, 5pm – 8pm
Virginia Labor 2022 Virtual Phone Bank: Tue, October 4, 6pm – 8pm
Wednesdays with Warner for the PRO Act: Wed, October 5, 8:15am – 9:15am
DC COPE meeting: Wed, October 5, 2pm – 3pm
Tri-County COPE: Wed, October 5, 7pm – 9pm
Prince George’s and Montgomery County COPE committee: Thu, October 6, 10am – 12pm
Your Rights at Work radio show: Thu, October 6, 1pm – 2pm
Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, October 6, 6pm – 7pm
NoVA Labor Pride at Work Rally for LGBTQ Students: Thu, October 6, 6:15pm – 7:15pm
GMU Coalition for Worker Rights: Fri, October 7, 12pm – 1pm
NoVA Labor Car Show & Labor Canvass: Sat, October 8, 8am – 2pm|
Maryland Labor to Labor Walks (4 locations): Sat, October 8, 9:30am – 2:00pm
Railroad Generations Gala: Sat, October 8, 6:30pm – 11:00pm |
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DC gets first union Starbucks
Workers at the 1429 P St. NW store on Friday voted 10-6 in favor of joining Starbucks Workers United. “A @Starbucks labor victory in the @AFLCIO's backyard,” tweeted AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler. “The first unionized store in DC! Now it's time for Starbucks to get to the bargaining table so baristas can get the contract they deserve!” photo (above): DC P Street Starbucks workers celebrate |
More congressional staff vote union
A majority of staff in the offices of Representatives Ro Khanna and Ilhan Omar have voted to unionize, reported the Congressional Workers Union on Friday. “For the first time ever in the history of Congress, workers across Capitol Hill are unionizing,” said Rep. Khanna, “I want to congratulate my staff for helping to lead the campaign and becoming the second office on the hill to unionize.” |
ATU 689 adds its voice to OSHA summit
Members of ATU Local 689 attended last week’s OSHA Workers' Voice Summit at the U.S. Dept. of Labor with fellow union members, worker organizations and advocates “to build new relationships, and discuss ideas for addressing worker issues and challenges,” reports ATU. photo: ATU 689 members Maurice Womack (l) and Gary Roose. |
Lierman talks with labor about how to “Build A Better Maryland”
Maryland Comptroller Democratic nominee Brooke Lierman had “an important and insightful discussion about how to best work together to build an economy that invests in workers and supports everyone,” at a meeting Friday with labor unions from across the state, as part of her “Build A Better Maryland” tour. |
Labor Quote: Woody Guthrie
There's a great and a bloody fight
'round this whole world tonight
And the battle, the bombs and shrapnel reign
Hitler told the world around he would tear our union down
But our union's gonna break them slavery chains
Our union's gonna break them slavery chains
Folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie ("This Land is Your Land", "Union Maid" and hundreds of others, including "Tear the fascists down, quoted above) died on this date in 1967 of Huntington's disease in New York at the age of 55. He wrote: “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we dont give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, thats all we wanted to do.”
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This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Socialist fairy tales. Last week’s show: Pueblo steelworkers’ historic strike.
The state militia is called in after 164 high school students in Kincaid, Ill. go on strike when the school board buys coal from the scab Peabody Coal Co. – 1932
The United Auto Workers calls for a company-wide strike against Ford Motor Co., the first since Ford’s initial contract with the union 20 years earlier – 1961
Baseball umpires strike for recognition of their newly-formed Major League Umpires Association, win after one day – 1970
- David Prosten
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